Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?

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Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
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Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
Rooftop farms, shade structures and baggage storage for for unhoused people are just a few of the projects that everyday Parisians have proposed –– and made a reality. With the city’s “participatory budgeting” model, anyone can have a say in how the city allocates its money. How would you spend your city’s budget?
Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
Through “participatory budgeting,” residents as young as eight years old can propose major urban projects, over 1,000 of which have been implemented.
Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
An innovative education model in northeast India aims to reduce plastic pollution, cut school drop-out rates and give students vocational training.
Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
With enrollment falling at U.S. universities, could British-style apprenticeships make college feel worth it again?
Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
Reasons to be Cheerful: What if you could spend your city’s budget?
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